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THE death of 19-year-old Langshaw man Tarryn Alexander near Amamoor last Friday has contributed to the alarming number of quad bike deaths in Australia.

Tarryn, a motorcycle and hunting enthusiast, died when the quad bike he was riding collided with a four-wheel drive near the Muster site on the unsealed Amamoor Creek Rd about 9.30am on Friday.

Since then, a seven-year-old girl has died after a quad bike accident on an island off South Australia's Eyre Peninsula.

The deaths comes two weeks after federal Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten announced plans to ban all children under 16 years of age from operating an adult-sized quad bike in any workplace, including farms.

Children account for about 20% of quad-bike deaths in Australia.

Since the year 2000, about 170 people have died in quad bike accidents, making the machines the leading cause of deaths on Australian farms.

Mr Shorten said the designers and manufacturers of quad bikes needed to improve design to minimise rolling, as well as create better roll cages.

Queensland's holiday road toll stands at three and the national toll at 25.